Reconnaissance
by Kirker
Entries 26
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Popcorn Brain
Sputtering, dazing, exciting, hoping, fantasising, working, scheming, screaming.....but always ending up lost horse on a pedestal. The arc I walk upon has ‘springed’ around with coppers and pinks...
Jacuzzi Breeze
Never allowed to be massaged. But even morning, every evening, every stormy afternoon as I stand on my balcony surrounded by a ring of green tree tops, the sea breeze from either direction, give ...
Hubbub
When the sweet little birds create a ruckus on the trees outside the balcony in a breezy late morning - that’s a priceless luxury. Some birds have such fleeting feet - the bird couple of pure-bla...
Flashing Through
That happens not very often when suddenly a song, a face, a voice or a word just flashes though one’s mind. That sets me on work similar to trying to record dream after you ve just woken up from....
Mons Pubis
Lonely…Very Lonely Had forgotten all the old passwords. Spent half a day to recover. She had sent me 4-5 shower pics on 24 April 2020 last. The last one had all the alluring goodies. The ‘centre ...
Think
When I have to think whether to think of someone or not. But I never think if I ve to dream about someone; I so much own it.
Rainbow Morning
For a long time I had not seen such a large rainbow on the sky as opened my balcony door. I just sat on the there and watch it melt arc by arc before thinking of any Sunday work. I wish there wer...
Counting Ships
First thing I look when I enter my cabin is to see if there is any new large ship berthed there - bright sparkles of sunlight dancing in the waves. Mostly disappointed - blame it on Covid or the ...
Life full of gratitudes
At times like this, one is bound to be grateful just to be alive. The Covid had stopped being just news when you see otherwise healthy persons working beside you are suddenly ditched by life. Alm...
Speed Redux
I had a personal chauffeur to drive me until end 2018 for almost six years. When I came to this place and got to stay close to work without much going-around, I gave up the car decided to live wi...
The Seedling
Signs of fertility is primordial and has always to be bowed; that how the world goes and we know so little of it. I have always wished to have some plants but as alleged I am very uncaring for e...
Mask Helps Feel Flattered
When the big guy sought appointment, my office asked for the reasons as is wont. He thought it below his dignity to answer such silly questions. I got a text from a former senior indicating ho my...
Gratitude, Voice
That therapy is something to maintain sanity rather than being embrittled with so many things. To beat isolation and little social contact on weekends, I open some random video chat windows or so...
Being Un-Unhappy
I would guess, its another phase yet to be defined. The trigger to come to think about it was some writing I read with the caption ‘Single and Happy’. Is that an innovative one ? Or should it ha...
The Maid
Living in an expansive heritage apartment in the heart of the oldest business district of the country, left to be lonely both physically and mentally, is not something one would have bargained fo...
The Monkeyed Zone
That’s when a monk is zoned out in the swirls of his own making and did I say a monk? Yes, I did. There are thousands of trails and trappings to be one, almost tailored to your monk-y fancies. ...
Empty Nest
I was in time on my balcony this Sunday morning to see the older kite kid take its first flight from the perch near its nest to a bamboo scaffolding few meters away. They have been flap-practicin...
Chick Chick Boom
Finally, the good news !! The kite couple have a chick !!! Most likely , yesterday. Through out the day I noticed that both the kites were spending more time on the nest together. It was towards...
Kite Kouple
Part 1: The couple had been the natives before I moved in the hood. I saw them building a nest a few feet from my balcony on a junction of three major peepal branches which was very satisfying to...
Arboreal Flash
I am familiar with all the sounds - bird calls to be precise around my world. I know which ones own those couple of trees and who just pass through them unchallenged (or those who face resistanc...
Her or Coffee?
Sleepless on bed at night is agonizing. When I argue with myself whether it’s her thoughts and bad romance or just that late cup of coffee that sleep is so shy of I am never awake to find the a...
étant
It takes a long time, almost a life time, and possibly a cave of a Covid age to realize that one is not actually seeking anything but its just about being.
il pleut
Its raining I love it Trees are Happy Birds are Happy I am Happy
The warmth of a distant lamp
(A Children’s story I came across and related why I come here) Both the people encountered a pond near his palace in that garden. The king was observing the pond and the water inside the pond. He...
In the Moment
When you reach the end of the road and the destination has vanished into blue and no way to turn back you experience pure happiness almost animal-like
Book Description
The blessings that one misses out as one looks through…too precious to be missed.